TrickyNicky

I really like my sp101 in .22lr it would be a bit heavy and large for a pocket gun though. might be that a good smith could chop the barrel down to the length of the ejection rod shroud and reattach the front sight, but you'd have to buy the ruger at a real steal to make that make more sense than the lcr option, unless the D/A trigger on the later was an absolute deal breaker.

Sorry for your loss Joe .

I ordered a weaver base for my newly shortened and threaded 597. It was supposed to come in last week, still waiting on my LGS to call. I have a $96. Credit with them and I'll be dipped if I can find anything I really want or need for a C-note. Will probably buy a little ammo, but $100 doesn't go very far these days

I would do pretty much everything you mentioned on the OP. Make de a reasonable offer, if he takes it great, if he counters on the premise that the auction price is climbing tell him your suspicions in a courteous but straight forward manner and let him know you're offer stands. From there if he is immovable, send eBay a letter with your suspicions and findings, then go find another RV to plunk coin on.

If Jeff is still at guns'n leather Greenbriar he would be my first call followed by the fellas at lock stock n barrel.

I'd be happier with .357 or 9mm, but can I get on this bandwagon?

Cant really tell anything from that pic. My brother is Italian and American Indian, he can and has passed for either of those, plus various Hispanic nationalities, Indian from India, black Irish, and middle eastern. Now, that's not to say I don't have my suspicions, just merely that I don't think anyone in the media, or possibly even eye witnesses would be reliable at this point.

I am very saddened to read this Randall. It sounds like you lost not only a son, but a friend as well. I am proud of your boy, proud of his service and proud of the man it sounds like he was, proud of the man he should have lived to be. Mental illness is no joke, the demons are in there I think for everybody and it is a shame when folks cannot overcome through their own or get the help they need to do so. It is DISGUSTING that what should be our nations most sacred asset, our veterans, cannot get a fighting chance with their lesser half, the government. I wish you peace in this trying time and urge you to open your heart to those who will help support and lessen even a trivial amount of your pain. I wish I had something better to say, words never are enough.

So if someone owns 17 guns they're a "super owner"? I always thought anything below that was 'cute' and 20 was 'a good start'

From L-R: Homebrew tele, Homebrew strat, Tokia "Les Paul", Carvin DLC126, Homebrew '54 "Lesa Paul", Gibson SG, Gibson SG, 1965 Epiphone Olympic, Gibson Melody Maker. And just for you Mikey Magnatone lap steel. Next up, amps!

And you didn't even need to use your AK. As the warrior poet ice cube has it, today was, in fact, a good day Great build and congratulations on the DD!

I use my phone as a watch these days when I'm not at my desk using the PC. Sadly as a working stiff with a seldom varied schedule, I can about tell you the time of day down to the quarter hour based entirely on what chore I happen to be in the midst of

I wish it were so Greg, I really do.

Thats it. We need another guitar thread in show and tell. Tonight, I'm on it for my part.

It is a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, I laughed so hard it would have come out my nose! I'm double glad it wasn't soda, don't ask me how I know carbonated beverages feel especially weird making a nasal egress.

Friedman is a freak of nature, but Mustaine is an absolute monster in his own right. Keep in mind he plays some fairly complex stuff and does it while singing, often in different time signatures for vocals and guitars. I always preferred Hammet though, people like to rag on him now, but people forget at the time he was doing some real cool stuff and incorporating techniques that lots of people saw as mutually exclusive. I have heard it posited (and I agree) that if you can learn the first three albums you are well set for learning anything from classic rock, classical, country et al. Not that you would be PROFICIENT in them, but it would be pretty easy to build off that skill set in many directions musically. Hetfield, dude is a machine, writing and playing. His rhythm is scary good for someone who never learned alternate picking . I kid, any rock band would be thankful to have someone help hold things down the way he can, plus he can write, plus he can sing. Dude is an MVP IMO. MettalicA was the first band I actually thought spoke to me musically and lyrically, everything else up to then was just bubble gum, not that theres anything wrong with that either, but they opened the door for me and showed me music was much more than just background noise.

I love SMKW, but not sure I've ever bought more than a cheap assisted opening knife my mom wanted for her glove box there. For the amount she uses it, it's perfect, could have spent more on a kershaw and had a better knife, but it wouldn't have a blue dragon on the handle and that seemed more important to her. I like to go and look, the knife museum is great and the 'country bear jamboree' type deal they have reminds me of being a kid and being fascinated by animatronic singing animals. I like the vibe and the feel of the place with the waterfall, mounted animas and all. places like this just don't get built anymore so I try to enjoy them before they all go out of business and get replaced by walmarts.

I had always been charged some fee or another until moving to GA. I asked the guy at the LGS what the charge for background check was and he looked at me like I just popped off the short bus Down here I pay sales tax and that's negotiable.

I think a large part of that is that there isn't really much point at this point to a more sophisticated drug test. As things sit now the time frame of consumption is fairly immaterial. You have it in your system or you don't. Case closed. I believe that through legalization a demand for a better mouse trap, or in this case drug test would result in some money being spent on producing one. Don't forget too the difficulties that would currently arise due to the difficulties of procuring materials for valid data collection because of it's classification. A company would have to find subjects willing to be monitored and tested through their consumption and after and bend over backwards to receive permission to even do the trial. And who knows if they would even be able to finish. Our government has a habit of pulling funding or flat out ignoring anything that goes against their current propaganda. All that for a product no one really needs at this juncture and here we are using testing methods 30 + years old with no eye to the future.

I don't see the problem as being limited at all to our generation. In fact, most people our age are to young to be qualified as data given in many cases they have only been in the work force for a decade or so. When was the last time you had someone over 40 take your order at Mickey Dees? I see it all the time. Down in East Nashville there is a Subway where the best sandwich maker is a +/- 60 year old lady. She is very nice and makes a hell of a sandwich with what they give her to work with, but in talking to her it's like it never occurred to her that if she didn't want to make $7 an hour, she should set her sights higher. Kinda sad.

It was a state court in Oregon, but it reads as though the court ruled, it went to appeals, and they upheld their ruling OK of the carry permit and the MMJ. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-gun-permit-and-a-medical-marijuana-card-2375446.php Like Dave, I would have no problem marking the correct box and moving on with my day. As mentioned by others, thats a no-no. Stupid laws get ignored, I think I read that here...

Interesting. A court ruling already ruled it a violation to not issue a carry permit to an otherwise qualified applicant maybe 5-8 years ago IIRC. One more reason I shake my head at MMJ databases. It isn't a prescribed medication*, it is a recommended treatment, none of anyone's business beyond the doctor, the dealer(provider) and the consumer. Not for 98.9% of the people I knew with MMJ

Yup, I ordered with one at Hardies last year and it was great! They offered me a small discount for trying it out and I threw a 'complicated' order at it just to see how accurate it was. Everything came out perfect. I would use one anytime the option presents itself.